Desolation

The Denver doom metal band’s third album is streamlined, expansive, and melodically sharp.

The genre of doom metal is overridden with dozens of pretenders cribbing from the playbooks of SLEEP and BLACK SABBATH, and all but a chosen few end up sliding almost immediately in one ear and out the other, not bringing much excitement to the table other than competently executed rehash. That said...

Expectations are higher than a Denver stoner for Khemmis' latest album Desolation. Does the Colorado doom band's third opus climb to the heights of their first two releases?

A review of Desolation by Khemmis, available worldwide June 22nd via 20 Buck Spin.

In recent years we have seen an upsurge of young, hungry talent taking the classic songwriting of metal's early torchbearers—big, boisterous vocal...